Women and Work
Vol 6: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 1997
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-8039-5058-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of original research articles explores how race, ethnicity, and social class have shaped the work lives of women. Women and Work explores womenAEs working conditions, their wages and salaries, their abilities to control their work environments, and how they see themselves and their options in the workplace. A great deal of importance is given to women of color, non-citizens, and working-class womenugroups that are often neglected in other treatments of this subject. The integration of work and family, womenAEs vision of their own work and consciousness as employees, and womenAEs resistance to exploitative and limiting work are themes are also addressed throughout this book. Written by and interdisciplinary group of women scholars, Women and Work will be of interest to faculty, researchers, and advanced students in the fields of sociology, organization studies, psychology, gender studies, womenAEs history, and economics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
595 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-5058-0 (9780803950580)
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Content
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham
PART TWO: HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham
An Economic Profile of Women in the United States - Barbara Robles
Speaking Up - Sharon Harley
The Politics of Black Women's Labor History
PART THREE: MANUFACTURING AND DOMESTIC SERVICE
Introduction - Mary Romero
The Evolution of `Alohawear' - Joyce Chinen
Colonialism, Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Hawaii's Garment Industry
Everyday Work Experiences - Louise Lamphere
Mexican American and Anglo Women in the Sunbelt Factories
Working `without Papers' in the US - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Towards the Integration of Legal Status in Frameworks of Race, Class and Gender
PART FOUR: HEALTH CARE, PROFESSIONS, MANAGERIAL AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham
Class Experience and Conflict in Feminist Workplaces - Sandra Morgen
A Case Study
Black and White Professional-Managerial Women's Perceptions of Racism and Sexism in the Workplace - Lynn Weber and Elizabeth Higginbotham
Immigrant Entrepreneurship, the Increase in Wife's Economic Role and Unequal Social Rewards - Pyong Gap Min
Koreans in New York City
PART FIVE: WORKING FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: DILEMMAS IN BUILDING SOLIDARITY
Introduction - Mary Romero
Working-Class Mexican American Women and `Voluntarism' - Mary Pardo
`We Had to Do It'
The Third Shift - Lynda Dickson
Black Women's Club Activities in Denver, 1900-1925
PART SIX: EPILOG
Epilogue - Mary Romero
Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham
PART TWO: HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham
An Economic Profile of Women in the United States - Barbara Robles
Speaking Up - Sharon Harley
The Politics of Black Women's Labor History
PART THREE: MANUFACTURING AND DOMESTIC SERVICE
Introduction - Mary Romero
The Evolution of `Alohawear' - Joyce Chinen
Colonialism, Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Hawaii's Garment Industry
Everyday Work Experiences - Louise Lamphere
Mexican American and Anglo Women in the Sunbelt Factories
Working `without Papers' in the US - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Towards the Integration of Legal Status in Frameworks of Race, Class and Gender
PART FOUR: HEALTH CARE, PROFESSIONS, MANAGERIAL AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Introduction - Elizabeth Higginbotham
Class Experience and Conflict in Feminist Workplaces - Sandra Morgen
A Case Study
Black and White Professional-Managerial Women's Perceptions of Racism and Sexism in the Workplace - Lynn Weber and Elizabeth Higginbotham
Immigrant Entrepreneurship, the Increase in Wife's Economic Role and Unequal Social Rewards - Pyong Gap Min
Koreans in New York City
PART FIVE: WORKING FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: DILEMMAS IN BUILDING SOLIDARITY
Introduction - Mary Romero
Working-Class Mexican American Women and `Voluntarism' - Mary Pardo
`We Had to Do It'
The Third Shift - Lynda Dickson
Black Women's Club Activities in Denver, 1900-1925
PART SIX: EPILOG
Epilogue - Mary Romero